XI   July 28, 2003

Mentors:  Nicole Zumpano & Alicia Ross

Listserve:  witxi-l@lists.cuip.net

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. -English proverb

1. Good Morning! Questions?

2. Site for the day.

3. Discuss Plenary...

4. Review Teacher Guides.

5. Almost finished? Check this checklist to make sure!

6. Work time...Webquests.

7. Reminder: Thursday & Friday webquest presentations.

8. Iota's rules of the web & how to download your files at home, as well as how to FTP your files from home

9. Taken from Lambda...

1. Internet not internet(capital I not lowercase i)and WebQuest not
Webquest
2. Think about how the teachers and students will navigate through the
pages.
You need to include links to get around and return to the portal page.
3. Finish the Implementation Plan and link it to the Teacher's Guide.
4. Remember to use consistent language in the WebQuest. Stay in
character and
remember you are speaking to the students in the WebQuest and teachers
in the
teaching guide.
5. Don't forget to list as resources any URLs that you used to develop
your web
pages and any that students will use to complete the WebQuest. Also,
include
any print resources, etc. that are used. We must give proper credit.
6. Scale down if you need to in order to have a complete WebQuest
finished by
Thursday morning.
7. Please proofread for grammatical and typographical errors.

8.While finalizing your projects for WIT 2003, please pay attention to the rules of copyright.

Generally, you should ask permission to use anything you've taken from another web site, unless that site offers you permission explicitly. If you do have permission to use something, you should put a note that says "Copyright ________ (whoever owns it), date; used with permission."

If you can't figure out how to ask for permission (no contact information on the web site you got it from), then at least you should do the courtesy of listing the source. You can do this by making a little note that says "Source: URL of the website you got it from."

Another good option is to leave the resource in its original location and just link to it, as we've done throughout the WIT curriculum modules. Example: "for a great picture of Craig's kids, see http://craigcunningham.com/photos."

Above all, don't steal without acknowledging! Not only does this set a bad example for your students, it can result in demands from the copyright owner that the resources be taken off your project. This can be embarrassing and can sometimes mean your project won't be usable by the students.

Note that "fair use" probably does not apply to making copies of something and posting it on a public web site such as your WIT project. "Fair use" requires that any copies be made available only to your students and only for a limited time.

Please read pages 71-79 in Curriculum Webs for more about copyright, or see the copyright module Marty Billingsley produced for WIT 2000: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2000/curriculum/homeroommodules/copyright/.

-Craig